Does she look like a music pirate?

That's the title of a Business Week piece about Tanya Andersen, the woman who prevailed in a file sharing lawsuit brought forward against her by the music industry and who is now suing the RIAA to stop the P2P lawsuit machine. Great weekend read, especially if you haven't kept up with all the nitty-gritty of the thousands of lawsuits the industry has started against file sharers in recent years. Here's a quick teaser:
"(Tanya Andersen's lawyer Lory R.) Lybeck figures that with all the potential errors in IP addresses collected by MediaSentry, the RIAA has gone after thousands of innocent people. He thinks the addresses could be erroneous as often as 20% of the time, which would mean 8,000 people wrongly accused. He believes that many innocent people have been coerced into paying because they can't afford to fight the RIAA in court."

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There is also another problem: more and more people have wireless routers and it is HELLA easy to make your router look like it has someone else's IP if you tap into their cable line.

They need more evidence than just an IP address: they need the actual music on the drives, PROOF that the person downloaded the things illegally (and just having a p2p program on your machine is NOT proof enough for me or anyone I have talked to), etc.

The RIAA lost a big case here, and they are going to be paying for it for the next 10 years with decision after decision against them.... they would be better to just stick to cases against commercial pirates.

Fileswire, that was one of the more elegant plugs that I've seen here. But I'm curious: It loos like your service is based on ActiveX, right? Any plans to include a Java applet to accomodate OS X / Firefox users? And btw., what is G3 supposed to be?

Jankro, the FilesWire service IS currently based on Java Applet technology. And should work accross multiple operating systems and browsers. However the Beta version has been optimized for internet explorer at this stage.

G3 is a p2p networking platform and protocal.It is delivered as a software API and Library. The technology will enable site owners to add p2p functionality to their site (in a similar manor to fileswire.com) without having to write low-level network code.

Programmers will also be able to add the G3 library to their software to incorporate file sharing capabilities within their standalone program. Again no low-level network coding needs to be written by programmers as the high-level G3 code library takes care of this.

G3 currently powers FilesWire, this serves as a way for us to test the platform. once we have completly tested the platform, we will make it available to developers and site owners to use in their projects.

04/27 15:52:25

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